Circular No.11

INCOME  TAX  EMPLOYEES  FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,New Delhi. 110 027.

Telefax. 2510 5321; 6543 1807

Circular No. -11/2011                                                                                         Dated: 29.09.2011.

 

Dear Comrade,

 

            We had in our circular No. 9 dated 14.09.2011 requested you to organise and participate in all the programmes of  action chalked out by the Steering Committee on PFRDA Bill.  Reports reaching the ITEF CHQ from various parts of the country is  very encouraging insofar as the participation and preparedness of our comrades in the programmes of March to Raj Bhawan and Dharna of 28.09.2011.   It is  equally important for us to make the Signature campaign and March to Parliament slated for 25.11.2011 programmes also a successful one with massive participation.  In order to make the March to Parliament programme a grand success, the Confederation has fixed quota for all its affiliates and accordingly the ITEF has to mobilize a minimum of  1000 comrades for participation.  Accordingly we request our circles to mobilize the undermentioned number of comrades from their circles to participate in the March to Parliament.  The quota of each circle is fixed after considering the distance and the time required for their travel.

 

All Secretariate members; .Delhi. 300;  Kanpur- 50;; Meerut. 50;  Agra 50; Lucknow-50;Barely- 50; Jaipur-50; Rohtak- 25; Panipat& Kurukshetra-25;Gurgoan-& Jalandar  30 persons; Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, & Patiala- 5 each; Simla- 5 persons Indore ,Gwalior , Bhopal-10 each; Raipur & Jabbalpur  - 5 each; NER-5; Bengal-10; Orissa-5;Bihar-10AP-5; Karala-5; Pune-5; Mumbai-10; Gurajath-10; Nagpur-5; Karnataka-5; Tamilnadu-10.

Since the march to Parliament is slated for 25/11/2011 at 11.00 A.M., the Circle General Secretaries are requested to ensure that they make their own arrangements for return journey preferably on the same day itself.  In case, some of the comrades are staying back due to non-availability of conveyance are requsted to intimate to us well in advance so that necessary arrangements can be made for their stay.      

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

 

Sd/ 

(Ashok B Salunkhe)

Secretary General.

 

Circular 10

              INCOME  TAX  EMPLOYEES  FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,New Delhi. 110 027.

www.itef.blogspot.com email: itefcentral@gmail.com.

Telefax. 2510 5321; 6543 1807

 

President: K.P. Rajagopal.                                                         Secretary General: Ashok B Shalunke.

Cir. No. 10/2011                                                                                                                 Dated: 27.09. 2011

AGITATONAL PROGRAMME CHALKED OUT FROM 29^TH  SEPTEMBER,

2011 ON DEPARTMENTAL DEMANDS STANDS DEFERRED.

 

Dear Comrade,

            The quarterly review meeting with the Chairman, CBDT and representatives of ITEF and ITGOA was held today at 11AM in the Chairman's Chamber.  The outcome of the meeting on the basis of which the agitational programme stands deferred is given below.

Demand No. 1 – Stop hiring of DEOs in place of stenographers.

Demand No. 2-  Honour the agreement and implement the assurances given on the functioning of the CPCs.

These two issues were discussed at length.  Both sides stuck to their stand and finally the Chairman and Member (P&V) agreed to our suggestion to form an official Committee to sort out the differences and recommend ways and means within a month.  The Committee will be headed by Shri Manoj Joshi DI(HRD) with three members from ITEF viz. Com. K.P. Rajagopal, President, Com. Ashok B Salunkhe, Secretary General and Com. Rupak Sarkar, Finance Secretary.  Till then the status-quo of the two issues will be maintained.

Demand No.-3. Fill up all vacant posts:- Necessary instructions to all Cadre Controlling Authorities have been issued to report the vacancies at the earliest for requisition of recruitment.

Demand No. 4- Holding of timely DPCs for promotions to all cadres: Instructions will be issued to CCAs in this regard.  Wherever DPC proceedings are held up due to litigations, instructions will be issued for holding adhoc promotions subject to review of final judicial verdict.

Demand No. -5. Cadre Composition- finalization and implementation-

Demand No. -6. Implementation of Cadre Restructuring-

These two items have been referred to the above Committee to finalise  and suggest to the Board for further action.

Demand No. 7. Provisions of Mobile handsets. It is informed that due to some observation and reservation of the Department of Expenditure, the same is held back and will have to wait for some more time.

Demand No.-8. Grant advance increment to Sr. TA & Stgrs. For passing ITI Exam. It is informed that due to some observation and reservation of the Department of Expenditure, the same is held back and will have to wait for some more time.

Demand No. 9. Financial Benefit on promotion to the Posts of OS & Stgr. Gr.I.

Demand No. 10. Restore the scheme of special pay to various  cadres.

These two issues also stand referred to the Committee to finalise the proposal.

Demand No.11. Infrastructure Fund: a) Provisions of desktops to all staff:  It was informed that the purchase of computers have now stands decentralized and the CCsIT are the competent authority to evaluate the requirement and purchase.  On our request it was agreed that a uniform instructions will be issued to the CCsIT to purchase and provide 6 computers per range to be exclusively provided for the use of Staff.

b) Provision of Air conditioners. ITEF was asked to further specify the requirement.  The ITEF is also to report wherever the Air-conditioners are not provided while modernizing the Ranges for which Rs 40 lakhs were provided for each range.

Demand No. 12- Departmental Examination- As per the Working Committee decision the issue of wrong answers determined by the Directorate for computer evaluation of answer papers were taken up.  We were told to give a detailed report on this issue.  The sample scrutiny done by the Madhya Pradesh and Chatisgarh Circle will be the basis of our report.  Meanwhile we have requested the DG (Admn) to release the answer key of all papers of 2011 Examination for our verification and necessary action which has been agreed upon.

Demand No. 13- Tarang Telecommunication Scheme. During the discussion it was pointed out by us that inspite of lapse of one year, the service provider has not updated the scheme.  On the part of the Department also, inspite of providing sufficient extra land line connection not even a single extra one has been installed in any places.  Especially in guest houses, canteen, staff room etc. still only PABX Extension are available.  We have been asked to report such matters to the CIT C&S.  All the Circle General Secretaries are requested to bring to our notice the shortcomings in the Tarang Scheme and whether sufficient numbers of land line connections have been provided in the places where it is intended to be provided as per the instant instructions.

In view of the above, the available members of the Secretariat decided to defer the agitational programme.   The Secretariat profusely thank all the Circles and General members for preparing themselves for the agitational  programme.

 

With greetings,

 

Yours fraternally,

 

sd/

(Ashok B Salunkhe)

Secretary General.

 

 

 

 

           

 

Circular No.9

INCOME TAX EMPLOYEES FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,New Delhi. 110 027.

www.itef.blogspot.com email: itefcentral@gmail.com.

Telefax. 2510 5324; 6543 1807

No.itef/ Cir. 9 /2011 Date : 14.09..2011.

Dear Comrade,

Agitation on departmental issues

We had placed on our website the details of the working committee meeting held on 25^th August, 2011 at New Delhi and the decisions thereon vide circular No.7. The Central Working Committee had unanimously decided to embark upon a series of agitational programmes to achieve the long pending departmental demands. The Charter of demands and the agitational programmes were also intimated through the above Circular. It is therefore imperative on the parts of all of us to ensure that the agitational programmes are carried out in totality in every circles so as to mount enough pressure on the CBDT to bring about resolution of our pending demands. As we had pointed out in the Working Committee meeting the department is planning to hire DEOs in lieu of Stenographers, which if allowed will be a big set back for our fight against outsourcing and will also adversely effect our career prospects. There is every possibility that the people thus hired can also be employed to carry out other work pertaining to non-gazetted employees jeopardizing our own survival in the department. It is therefore necessary that all circles should ensure that this scheme is not allowed to be implemented. It is once again called up on to ensure that no stone is left unturned to ensure that all the agitational programmes are made a grand success . Since some of the Circles have requested to postpone the Dharna programme slated for 5^th October 2011 on account of festival the same has been deferred to 13^th of October, 2011. All Circles are once again requested to carryout the agitational programmes communicated in totality.

CONFEDERATION PROGRAMME OF ACTION

We have already placed on the website the circulars issued by the Confederatrion of Central Govt. employees and Workers, on the PFRDA Bill and other common demands. Kindly ensure that State level Conventions are held and March to Raj Bhavan be organized by the end of September, 2011, if not already done. The Campaign material on the PFRDA bill is also available on the website. The Memorandum may be downloaded and may be distributed to all members and ensure that signature is obtained from not only our members but also from family, friends and general public. This work needs to be done without further loss of time.

The Circle Secretaries are requested to download the programme of action and Charter of Demands from our website and do the needful in the matter.

(Ashok B Salunkhe)

Secretary General

Amendment-1of 2011 -Arithmetic calculater permitted

http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/archive/DepartmentNews_Amendment_Delhi_09122011.pdf

Circular No.8

INCOME TAX EMPLOYEES FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,New Delhi. 110 027.

www.itef.blogspot.com email: itefcentral@gmail.com.

Telefax. 2510 5321; 6543 1807

No.itef/ Cir. 8 /2011 Date : 08.09..2011.

Dear Comrade,

You are aware that the "Examination Rules" notified by the Board for the year 2011 prohibits the use of Calculator by the candidates in the Examination. Upon representation from various circles, we took up the matter with the Chairman and the same was subjected to discussion in the quarterly meeting with the Chairman held on 20^th July, 2011. The Chairman was of the opinion that calculators should be allowed since the same is being used for the day to day work also. The official version contained in the minutes of that meeting circulated by the Board vide F No. B-12020/2/2011-Ad.IX dated 17.08.2011 is as under:

"The staff side demanded that calculators should be allowed in the exam.

The Chairman opined that in view of present scenario of technology upgradation, the demand could be considered justified as it would test their skill in the use of such gadgets. He asked DIT (Exam) to examine this issue and make appropriate proposal."

We are yet to hear from the Directorate whether it has got the proposal approved and instructions issued to the field formations. Meanwhile you may inform the candidates that they may use the calculator in the Departmental Examination wherever necessary.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

Sd/

(Ashok B Salunkhe)

Secretary General,

Circular No.7/2011

INCOME TAX EMPLOYEES FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,New Delhi. 110 027.

www.itef.blogspot.com email: itefcentral@gmail.com.

Telefax. 2510 5321; 6543 1807

President: K.P. Rajagopal. Secretary General: Ashok B Shalunke.

No.itef/ Cir. 7 /2011 Date : 26.08.2011.

Dear Comrade,

CWC Meeting held on 25.08.2011 and decisions.

The Central Working Committee Meeting was held on 25.8.2011 at Manishinath Bhawan, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi. Upon the proposal of the President, the house requested Com. C.M.Badola, Vice President to Chair the meeting. The CWC meeting had the presence of all circles except the Group D Circles of Eastern UP and Western UP. We give hereunder the decisions taken in the CWC meeting after detailed and well participated deliberations on the agenda items.

Agenda Item No. 1: Confirmation of the minutes of the last CWC meeting held at Kolkata on 20^th and 21^st November, 2010: After incorporating the inadvertent omission pointed out by Karnataka & Tamilnadu Circles, the minutes circulated amongst the members were approved.

Agenda item No. 2: Review of settlement on common and Departmental issues: The Secretary General briefed the house about the pending demands, the long delay on the part of the authorities even in settling issues which are totally in the hands of the CBDT. Even the issues like functioning of Central Processing Centres, Mobile Handsets, filling up of vacancies and timely holding of DPC, which are agreed upon by CBDT are not being honoured and implemented. It was also brought to the notice of the house that the Board is not taking any serious steps to get the proposals submitted by the ITEF with regard to Cadre Composition, cadre restructuring approved by the Finance Minister, Fixation of pay in the case of Inspectors, Financial benefit on promotion to OS, Stgrs., Advance increment to Sr. TAs & Stgrs. on passing Departmental Examination, Utilization of incentive fund etc. He also reported that until a sustained agitation is resorted to, there is bleak possibility of settlement and implementation of these issues. The members, cutting across circles, were agitated over the attitude of the Board, and wanted immediate resolution of the issues. After detailed discussions, it was decided to embark upon agitation of serious nature and wanted the Secretariat to chalk out such programmes which will force the authorities to settle the issues and implement the same in a time bound manner. The Charter of Demand and Agitational programme chalked out and proposed by the Secretariat was discussed and finalized with modification suggested by the house. The same is put as annexure –A. to this circular.

Item No. 3: Venue and date of the Next Conference. The agenda item was taken up alongwith the item No. 5 viz. Conference Finance. The house was informed about the discussion undertaken by the CHQ with various Circles and the readiness expressed by the Gujarat Circle to shoulder the responsibility of hoisting the 28^th All India Conference of ITEF. The members of Gujrat Circle informed the house that the Conference can be held at Mehasana in Gujarat during the second half of February. They have also informed the house the probable cost expected to be incurred for this purpose and appealed to all circles to help them in getting sufficient funds through Souvenir advertisements. The house approved the suggestion of the Secretariat that a reasonable target of amount to be collected through advertisements by each circle will be fixed and intimated. The necessary number of appeal forms for obtaining advertisement will be sent by the host Gujrat Circle. The target so fixed by the Secretariat is put as Annexure B to this Circular.

Agenda item No.4: CHQ finance and review of remittance from the Circles. The house discussed the statements circulated by the Secretariat detailing the remittances and outstanding on account of renewal fees, Aayakar and Building fund. Some circles pointed out the discrepancies in the no. of members in their circles and non receipt of Aayakar. The Secretariat assured the house that the discrepancies pointed out will be corrected and revised statement will be drawn and requested all the circles to expedite the payments to CHQ.

Agenda item No. 6: Organisational matters (CHQ) and Circles): The House raised the issue of absence of principal Office bearers from the CHQ either on foreign service or on leave and wanted that the CHQ should not be left without any principle Office bearers. The Secretary General informed the house that either the President or the Secretary General will be in the Central Headquarters. The proposal made by the Secretariat to reconstitute the Disciplinary Committee by nominating Com. M. Santhanam was approved.

During the discussion and deliberations on all the agenda items, the following comrades actively participated.

Com. M.V. Prasad(AP Gr.C), Rupak Sarkar (Bengal C), Manmohan Naik (Bengal –D), Mukteswar Prasad, and C.K. Jha(Bihar C), Ashok Kr. Kanojia & V.S. Negi (Delhi –C), Com. Chandan Singh (Delhi D), Madhusudanan (Gujrat), Vinod and Nagesh (Karnataka), Sajeevan (Kerala), P.S.Thakur and Yeshwant Purohit (MP&CG ),Ravi Nair (Mumbai), Subhadeep (NER) Com. Narwal (NWR),D.P.Acharya (Orissa),Prasad Vidwans (Pune) R.K. Meena & SP Sharma (Raj-C) Nathuram Meena (Raj. D),M.S. Vengatesan (Tamilnadu), J.P. Singh (Eastern –UP),Ajay Tiwari (Western UP),B.N. Chikkatte (Vidharba-C) Sunil Bulgoankar (Vidharba-D).

Agenda item No.7: Any other matter. Under this items the members raised the following issues.

1. Outsourcing the work of Group C members, functioning of the CPC, and hiring of DEO in the vacancies for Stenographers.

2. Revival of the functioning of the JCA and the proposal to hold Central JCA Meeting at Kolkata.

3. Functioning of the Zonal Accounts Offices and harassment by them even to the retiring personnel.

4. Compassionate appointment.

5. Recruitment of MTS and regularization of casual workers.

6. Shortage of staff in Departmental canteens.

7. Shortage of Desktop Computers to staff,

8. Malfunctioning and billing of mobile phones under tarang scheme.

9. Increasing of Petrol allowance.

10. Problems of staff car drivers- merger to mainstream of willing SCDs.

11. Valuation of Departmental Examination answer papers and its shortcomings,

12. Non-availablity of Operational Vehicles for Official work to staff due to misuse of the same.

13. Non-payment of entitlement on election duty.

14. Conducting of Trade Union class especially to educate the newely recruited employees.

15. MACP issue of Notice Servers,

While summing up, the SG informed the house that the above items will be taken up as demands with the appropriate authorities both on Departmental Issues and through Confederation on common issues. He also informed the house that for the ensuing agitational proggramme chalked out by the house, wherever necessary secretariat members will undertake campaign programme and appealed to all to make all the programmes a success.

Com. C.M.Badola, Vice President proposed the vote of Thanks.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

(Ashok B Salunkhe)

Secretary General,

Annexure –A.

Charter of Demands.

1. Stop hiring of DEOs in the place of Stenographers.

2. Implement the agreement and assurances given to us on various occasions with regard to functioning of Central Processing Centre and outsourcing other functions of the Deptt.

3. Fill up all vacant post in the Group C cadres.

4. Holding of timely DPC for promotions to all cadres.

5. Approve and implement the Cadre Composition proposal submitted by ITEF in conformity with the recommendations of the VI-CPC.

6. Implement the Cadre Restructuring proposal approved by the Finance Minister.

7. Provide Mobile handsets as has been agreed upon.

8. Grant advance increment to Sr. TAs, Stgr.- II on passing Deptt. Examination.

9. Grant Financial benefit on promotion to the cadre of Office Supdt. and Stgr. Gr.-I.

10. Restore the Scheme of Special Pay granted to various categories for arduous nature of duties.

PROGRAMME OF ACTION.

1. Lunch hour Demonstration to be held on 29^th September, 2011.

2. Non-co-operation from Ist October, 2011.( No statistical reports except Parliament question), not to participate in surveys, search operations including TDS surveys/ Inspection ,not to allow any outsiders to work in the office, not to attend office on holidays & after office hours.

3. Day long Dharna to be held infront of all CCIT stations on 5^th Oct, 2011.

4. One day Walkout programme during the month of October 2011.

(the date of the same will be intimated by CHQ).

5. Sect. to meet in the month of November to review the progress and to decide further course of action.

Annexure B

Quota for collection of Advertisement tarrif for the All India Conference.

S.No.	Name of Circle	Amount (Rs)
1	A.P. Circle Group C.	1,50,000
2	A.P. Circle Group D	50,000
3	Bengal Circle Group C	4,00,000
4	Bengal Circle Group D	50,000
5	Bihar Circle Group C	1,50,000
6	Bihar Circle Group D	-
7	Delhi Circle Group C	3,00,000
8	Delhi Circle Group D	50,000
9	Gujarat Circle	--
10	Karnataka Circle	3,00,000
11	Kerala Circle	1,50,000
12	Mumbai Circle Group C	5,00,000
13	Mumbai Circle Group D	1,00,000
14	M.P. & CG	1,50,000
15	NE Region	1,50,000
16	NW Region-C	2,00,000
17	NW Region-D	--
18	Orissa	1,00,000
19	Pune	1,50,000
20	Rajasthan Circle Group C	1,50,000
21	Rajasthan Circle Group D	50,000
22	Tamilnadu Circle	4,00,000
23	Eastern UP-C	1,00,000
24	Eastern UP-D	25,000
25	Western UP-C	2,00,000
26	Western UP-D	25,000
27	Vidharba-C	1,00,000
28	Vidharba-D	25,000